Parted documentation - boot disk

[Ilya Minkov]

I'm sorry, this problem is probably due to my "stupidity", but nothing a 
good documentation couldn't fix. I don't use Linux on a regular basis, 
but i intend to do so, so please forgive me.

The documentation about using the boot disk is apparently incomplete.

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/parted_8.html

I was following it, and successfully wrote a boot diskette of 
partboot.img using a DOS diskette writer.

When trying to boot from it, it expects some *second* disk. The 
documentation fails to mention it, as well as how to create it.

I have found the needed file, and after some trying around i have 
figured out that it has to be written raw on a diskette - although it's 
named .gz and not .img - and not put on any sort of FS, be it DOS or 
EXT2. This is all less than obvious.

Thanks.

-eye